Motor-winding apparatus



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nl l!! nvewfo/a 1924 Jan W. W. ROSENFIELD NOW BY JUDCIA CHANGE OF NAME W. w. LAIRD MOTOR WINDING ABPARATUS Filed April 29. 1918 Sheets-Sheet 2- .W M, l Z J Patented dan. 22, 1924.

PATENT WILLAM-W. ROSENFIELD, OF NEW-YORK, Y.; NOWBY JUDICIAL CHANGE OF NAME v W'ILLIAM W. LARD.

MOTOR-WINDING APPARATUS.

Application filed April 29, 1918. Serial No. 231,379.

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM W. ROSEN- rIELn (now, byjudicial change of name, VILLIAM W. LAIRD), a citizen of the United 1;- State's, residing at New York city, in the county oi* New York and State of New York, have invented certain new and luseful Improvements in Motor-Winding Apparatus, fully described and represented in the following specification and the accompanying drawings, forming a part of the same.

The invention relates to winding apparatus 'for spring motors or the like, and is particularly adapted to the winding Vof spring motors for driving phonographs.

Various objects of the-invention are to provide a simple and eiiicient apparatus for winding such spring motors or the-like by means of an electric motor, and an apparatus which is conveniently assembled with the spring motors oi common manufacture, in which the operation of the winding motor is automatically discontinued in an improved manner, and in which also the spring motor or the like may be wound up independently of the electric motor. y

Further objects, features and advantages will more clearly appear from the detailed #U description given below taken in connection with the accompanying drawings which form a part of this specication.

1n the drawings Figure 1 is a side view ci a spring motor and aswindingapparatus "l on the same section as Figure 3 with the eccentric gear removed and illustrating the automatic opening of the electric motor control switch.

t v'ei'or embodying my invention in its pre-` Figure 8 is a detail section taken on the line 8 8k ofv Figure 2.

Figure 9 is a face view of the spring plate of the friction clutch taken on a line 9*9 oFigure 4. n

Referring to the various figures and particularly to Figures 1 and 2, 10 represents a part of the usual container or casing for the spring motor 11 and the winding apparatus therefor. The spring motor y 11 is adapted to drive, through` suitable gearing, a shaft 12 which rotates the table 13 adapted to carry the phonograph or talking machine record, in a manner well understood by those skilled in the art.

14 represents an electric motor adapted to be secured to the top board or wall of the casing lby means ot' a supporting bar 15. The motor 14 is provided with an armature shaft 16 having thereon aworm 17 driving a worm gear 18 located in a housing 19 preferably cast integral with a part of the motor casing and provided with a re-y movable side plate 19a. The worm-gearlS l is free to rotate on a shaft 20 (see Fig. 4) and is provided with a hub 21 on which is journalled, concentrically with the wormY .gear 18, an internal gear 22. The hub 21 is` provided with an eccentric extension 23 on which is jo-urnalled, eccentrica-lly to the gears 18 and 22, a gear 24 having its teeth meshing with the internal gear teeth ot the gear 22. The gear 24 is prevented from rotation by means of a stationary pin 25 eX- tending into a slot 26 in the gear 24. The

gear 24 is provided with one less tooth than the gear 22 so that as the gear 24 is given an eccentric movement upon rotation of the eccentric hub 23, the geark 22 is rotated very slowly. By means of this internal gear arrangementa reduction gearing is provided which'is simple and conveniently arranged in the small space athand. The thrust on themotorshaft is taken by a ball thrust bearing provided by a screw cap 27 on the lower end of the motor casing which carries a steel bearing plate 28 which is slightly recessed to receive a bearing ball 29 against which the slightly recessed end of the motor sha-ft rests. The cap 27 serves as an oil cup, a washer'29a of absorbent material being provided about the bearing ball.

Secured on top of the housing 19 is an electric switch housing preferably made et insulating material, in which is arranged a snap switch for the controlling of the energization of the electric motor. The switch is provided with two spring contacts 3l and 32 to rwhich the electrical conductors of the electric motor circuit are suitably connected, the conductors beinp' led oil" i'rom the switch housing at 33. Fivoted at- 34 is a switch member 35 which in the pesition shown in Figures 3 and 4, is adapted to make electrical connection between the contacts 31' and 32. Adapted toV slide ver tically in the housing 30 are two push pieces'36 and 37 rigidly connected by a flat strip 38 having a central slot 39 therein, into which extends the forked end 40 of a rod 4l, the forked end enga-ging over a pivot vcross piece 42 rigid with the flat strip 38. The other end of the rod 4l extends through a. hole in the center portion of the switch member 35, and a coiled spring 43 is compressed b'etweenthe outer end of the switch member 35 and the forked end 40 on the rod 41.- With the parts in the position shown' in Figures 3 and 4, it will be seen that the spring 43 tends to torce switch member 35 upwardly about the pivot 34 so as to` maintain electrical connection between the contacts `31 and 32. lf the push piece 37 is pushed upwardly until the pivot 42 is above the pivot 34 the spring 43 will tend to force the switch member 35 downwardly so as to open the switch by snap action. Then when it is desired to close the circuit ot the electric motor to energize the same, thevpush piece 36 may be pushed downwardly manually until the pivot 42 is below the pivot 34 when the spring' 43 of the snap switch will force the switch member 35 up wardly to close the circuit of the electric motor to energize the same.

For the purpose of opening' the switch automatically when the spring motor has been wound up to the desired extent, `there is pivoted at 45 on the periphery ot'l the internal gear 22 a cam piece 46 normally held in the positionshown in Figures 3, 5 and '7 by spring 47. The cam piece 46 maybe made of sheet metal having` a flat top section and two lateral iiat sides straddlingz' the outer edge of gear 22 to tbe engaged by the pivot pin 45. As the gear 22 revolves slowly the outer face of the cani piece 46 engages the push piece 37 as shown in Figure and pushes the same upwardly shown in Figure 6. Then the upward movementot the push piece 37 has reached a point where the switch snaps to open position, the push piece will quickly assume the open position as shown in Figure 7 whereupon the cam piece 46, which has been rotated slightly about its pivot 45 by reason of its engagement of the push piece 37, immediately swings downwardly under the action of the spring 47, and into the position shown in Figure 7. The circuit to the electric motor will then be opened and the motor deenergized. Vhen it is desired to energize the motor, the push piece 36 will be operated to close the switch in the manner above described and the push pieve 37 will thereby be moved downwardly ready for further enga-gement with the cam piece 46. By pivoting the cam piece 46 and providing the spring 47 as described, then immediately the snap switch is opened, the cam piece moves4 away from and out of the line otmovement ot the push piece 37, so that the cam piece 46 will not interfere with the closing of the snap switch. The engaging 'face of the cam piece 46 desirably has a backward slant as shown so as to operate moet effectively in pushing` upward the push piece 37. By reason of the particular gear arrangement shown the parts are encompassed in a small space and the great reduction in gearing necessary lor operating the cam piece 46 is accomplished with the use ot very few parts.

Arranged on the shaft 2O (see Figure 4) is a iction clutch disc 50 and arranged between the disc 50 and the face of the gear 13 is a friction clutch washer 51 o't vulcanized iiber or other suitable material. The dise 50 is provided with a slot. 52 into which extends a key 53 for keying the disc 50 to the shaft 20. The key is adapted to have a sliding movement in the slot 52, longitudinally et the shaft 20, so that while the disc 50 will positively rotate the shaft 2O it. at the same time, is capable oi" slight longitudinal movement thereon. K rlhe disc 50 and washer 5l are firmly pressed toward the friction tare of the gear 13 by means ol a spring plate or disc 54, a 'tace view of which is shown in Figure 9. The spring plate 54 is held in place by a collar vwhich is rigidly secured to the shaft 2O by the pin or key At the opposite end.y the gear i8 is held from longitudinal movement on the shatt 2O by means et a collar 56 secured to the sha-'ft 20 by a key 57, a fiber washer 53 being desirably interposed between the col lar 56 and the hub et the gear 16.

Vlt will thus be seen that as the worin i3 is driven by the electric motor it will tend to rotate the disc 56 through the triction clutch washer and so rotate the sha'iit 20.

The shaft 2O extends into a ln'acket trame 4or link 60 and has secured thereon a ratchet lll() be rotated inthe same direction by reason of engagement of 'the pawl 63 with the ratchet. Should, however, the gear 62 be rotated in the same direction by other means the gear 62 will rotate freely on the shaft over the teeth 20 and the pawl .63 will yslide of the ratchet wheel 6l without causing .any movement thereof. The gear 62V meshes with a gear 65 rigidly secured to the winding shaft 66 of the spring motor 1l through suitable gearing in a manner well understood by those skilled in the art. In order to prevent the shaft 66 from being rotated in the opposite direction under the action of the spring motor when the winding has stopped, there is provided fast on the shaft 66 a ratchet wheel 67 adapted to be engaged by a ratchet pawl 68 pivoted on the spring motor frame. rllhe shaft 66 extends through the bracket 60 and is screw threaded or otherwise formed at its outer end as at 69 for engagement with the usual manual operating handle for winding up the spring motor. When the soring motor is wound up manually in this way with the shaft 66, the gear 65 will rotate the gear 62 and this is permissible by reason of` the pawl and ratchet arrangement 6l, 62, 63,` which permits the gear 62 to rotate in this direction without tending to rotate the ratchet wheel 6l ory shaft 20.

The spacing bracket ork link 60 carrying the gear train 62, 65, it will be n-oted, is pivotally mounted at one end on the spring motor Vwinding shaft 66 and atV the other Aend on the driving shaft 20. By t ius swivel-v ling the bracket 60 the motor le andparts carried thereby may assume different positions with respect to the winding shaftV 66 and spring motor ll while maintaining the driving gears in operative relation. `This is of importance in that in various makes of apparatus containing such spring motors or the like, the position of the winding shaft 66 will be at various distances from the top board of the frame or casing l0 to which the electric motor and parts carriedthereby must be secured. The winding apparatus shown will thus be adapted to be placed in cases or containers containing spring motors of various makes and designs and carrying the shaft 66, which the spring -motor winding apparatus must drive, at

various distances from the supporting wall of the casinglO.v As shown in Figures l and 2 the push piece 36V extends upwardly into the 'wall or casing l0 and above it there is provided an additional push piece 70 surrounded by collar 7l for holding it in place, so that when the push piece 76 is pushed down the snap switch is readily closed, lThe push piece .70 may be considered' as an extension toV the push piece 36 extending through the casing containing the motors and parts carried thereby. By reason of the arrangement by which the electric motory 14 andparts carried therebymay assume f various positions with respect to the spring motor 1l and winding' shaft 66, the electric motor le may always be secured to the part l0, at the same distance therefrom, so that c the push piece 36 will always extend to subdrawings is most desirably employed in which the ratchet wheel 6l is fast on a sleeve 5 which entends through bearing openings in the two side plates of the bracket or link 60, and on which also the gea-r 62 is 'loosely mounted. wV'Vhen the vbracket 60 with "its associated parts is assembled with the motor and speed reduction gearing, the driving shaft 20 extends into the sleeve 75 and the sleeve is lsecured to the shaft to turn therewith, as by means of a` set screw 76. This arrangement has the advantage that the gear 62 and the ratchet wheel 61 and thesleevey may be assembled in the bracket frame ready for attachment to the driving shaft 20 in the simple manner above stated. y n The ratchet wheel is conveniently secured fast on the sleeve by being driven on to a lniurled A part thereof, or may be secured in other manner, and a spacing collar 77 is provided in the construction shown to prevent Vrelative movement between the sleeve .75 and the bracket frame endwise of the sleeve.

lt'will be noted that the cam piece 46 will always operate the snap switch to open the saineV after a predetermined number of revolutions of the electric motor la. It may be that the spring motor will bewound up before such opening of the snap switch takes iio place. In such case when the spring motor c has been wound up, the friction clutch device 18, 50, 5l will give, so as to permit the electric motor to continue running without further winding up the spring motor. The electric motor will continue to run for the predetermined number of revolutions, whereupon the snap switch will be automatically opened as described, and the electric motor will then be deenergized. The electric motor may then again be energized at any time desired by manually operating the push piece 70, 36 to close the snap switch.

Vfhile l have described my improvements in greatr detail and with respect to one enibodinient thereoiil do not desire to be liinited to such details since many changes and modifications may be made and the improvements may be embodied in widely different forms without departing from the spirit Vpush piece upon the opening of said switch to prevent it from interfering with the closing of the switch.

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l0. rlie combination with a spring motor or the like, of an electric motor for winding the spring motor or the like, a switch for opening the circuit of the electric motor to deenergize the same, a worin on the armature shaft of the electric motor, a worm gear driven by said worm, an internal gearv arranged concentric with said worm gear, a

nonrotatable .gear meshing with the internal gear andhaviiig` a different number of teeth than, and arranged eccentric to, said internal gear, means whereby the worm gear eccentrically moves said eccentric gear to slowly drive the internal gear, and means whereby said internal gear opens said switch after a predetermined movement of said internal gear. p 1

ll. The combination with a 'spring motoi` or the like, of an electric motor for wind ing the spring motor o r the like, a switch for opening the circuit of the electric motor to deenergize the same, a rotating member for opening said'switch, an internal gear carried by said member, a spur gear of smaller diameter engaging within said internal gear, means impelled by the electric motor for drivingsaid gear eccentrically' and for preventing its rotation about its axis, and a switch operating member carried by said rotating member.

l2. rlhe combination with a spring motor or the like, of an electric motor for winding the'spring motor or the like, a switch for opening the circuit of the electric motor to deenergize the same, arotating member, a cam movably mounted on said member for opening said switch, internal reducing gearing driven by the electric motor and rotating said rotating inember,l

and means for manually closing said switch to energize the motor.

13. The combination with a spring motor for driving a phonograph and a container' in which said motor is mounted, of an elec? tric motor mounted within said container for winding said spring motor, a snap switch for closing and opening the circuit to the electric motor to energize and deenergize the electric motor, a spring co-operating with said switch serving to oppose the motion of said switch from its extreme position in either direction to its central position and serving to urge said switch from its central position to its extreme position in either direction, said switch having a push piece extending through a wall of said container to the outside thereof for manually closing the switch, and means for automatically opening said switch to deenergize the motor after the spring motor has been wound, said last mentioned means comprising a member driven by the electric motor and acting 'to open the switch upon theelectric motor having made a predetermined rnumber of revolutions. f i Y lli, llinding apparatusy for spring motors and the like, comprising an electric motor, a driving shaft driven by the electric motor,

and` meansfor driving, the winding shaft of the spring motor from vsaid driving .shaftq said means being adjustable to permit of Jhe electric motor driving the winding` shaft through said-means with the motor and driifing shaft at different positions with re-Y spectto the winding shaft of the spring mo tor, and said means including a device per mitting the spring motor to be wound independently of said electrio'fmotor.

l5. lllinding apparatus for sprir and the like, comprising anelectri'` motor, a driving shaft driven by the electric motor, means for driving tlie'winding shaft ot'y the spring motor from said driving shaft, said means being adjustable to permit of the electric motor driving the winding shaft through said means with the motor and driving shaft at different positions with respect to the winding` shaft of the spring motor, and said means including a device permitting the spring motor to be wound independently of said electric motor, and means automatically deenergizing the electric motor after it has operated the winding means to wind the spring motor. i

16. lWinding apparatus for spring motors and the like, comprising in combination with a spring motor. a winding motor, a driving shaft driven by the winding motor through speed reduction gearing,v and trans- .mission mechanism comprising a spacing in said side. plates and adapted to receive and toV be secured to J@urn with a driving lshaft of the winding apparatus, a gear loose on said sleeve between said side plates, and a pawl and ratchet device, one member of which 1s carried by said gear and the other motors pf'ith said switch tending to oppose the motion of said switch from its extreme position in either direction to its central position and to urge said switch from its central position to its extreme position in either direction, means for closing said switch, and means for automati-.ially opening said switch comprising a switclroperating member,r a member driven by the electric motor, and a cam piece movably mounted upon said member and adapted to contact with said switch-operating member and to remain in contact therewith while moving said switch to its central position in opposition to said spring and to cease contact therewith when said switch has passed its central position and is vurged to its extreme position by said spring.

19. The combination with a spring motor for driving a phonograph, of an electric motor for winding said spring: motor, a switch for closing and opening the circuit of the electric motor, a spring;r co-operating with said switch tending to oppose the motion of said switch from its extreme position in either direction to its central position and to urge. said switch from its central position to its extreme position in either direction, means for closing said switch, and means for automatically opening said switch comprising` a switch-operating member, a wheel driven by said electric member, and a cam piece pivotally mounted upon said wheel normally lying against said wheel and adapted to contact with said switch-operating member and tip up from said wheel while moving' saidswitch in opposition to said spring' to its central position and to return to its normal position against said wheel during the motion of said switch from its central position to its extreme position under the action of said spring.

In testimony whereof l have hereunto set my hand in the presence of two subscribing r witnesses.

WILLIAM lW. ROSENFELD.

lVitnesses ETHEL JoHNEs, A. L. KENT. 

